Improved leather-paper for floor-cloths



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD RICHMOND, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS. V

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,340, dated June 28,1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD RICHMOND, of Brookline, in the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improvedmethod of uniting two or more pieces of leather-paper for makingcarpets, house-paper, table-covers, crumb-cloths, linings, sheathings,850., and for painting and embossing the same for the purposes ofornamentation; and I hereby declare that the following is afull, clear,and exact description of my process.

I take ordinary leather scraps and grind or pulp them with vegetablefiber, running out the pulp thus made on an ordinary paper-machine insheets of various lengths and widths to suit circumstances; I take thepaper thus made and scarf 0r bevel the edges of the same by hand ormachinery, so that the extreme edge will be quite thin, and I overlapand conmeet the two edges thus formed for the purpose together underpressure of clamps, rollers, or in any other convenient manner. Thesheets thus united will form one continuous sheet of any desired lengthor width, which may be printed, stained, or embossed for carpets orfloor-cloths, rugs, linings, sheathings, house-paper, table-cloths, andother like articles of manufacture. It will be understood that forcar-linings, house-paper, large tablecovers, or floor-cloths, madecontinuous for the whole size of the room or article to be 00\'- ered,the edges are securely cemented together. Having thus described myinvention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a carpet, rug,lining, tablec0ver, house or wall paper, made of two or more sheets ofleather-paper united at their edges in the manner hereinbeforedescribed, so as to produce a continuous even-surfaced sheet,substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I have signed my nameto this specification before two subscribing witnesses.

E. RICHMOND.

Witnesses:

A. POLLAK, J 0s. L. OooMBs

